Director Financial Planning & Reporting

Role Summary

The position focuses on leading the financial planning and reporting function, aligning financial strategies with corporate objectives, and providing actionable insights to senior leadership. This role demands strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, governance, and team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the comprehensive annual budgeting, medium-term forecasting, and five-year business planning, ensuring consistency with strategic goals.
• Drive ongoing financial forecasts and projections, offering forward-looking analyses including scenario and risk assessments.
• Assist senior executives in translating strategic priorities into concrete financial plans, performance scorecards, and commitments.
• Manage and refine enterprise-wide management reporting: weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual dashboards covering financial and non-financial KPIs.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and insightful reporting to Executive Committee, Board members, and regulators, emphasizing performance drivers and corrective measures.
• Promote a unified performance narrative by integrating financial results with operational and strategic metrics across business units.
• Create advanced forecasting frameworks featuring scenario planning, sensitivities, and stress testing techniques.
• Support decisions regarding major investments, trade-offs between capital and operational expenditures, cost optimization, and strategic business cases.
• Identify potential risks and opportunities through data-driven recommendations to enhance performance outcomes.
• Maintain robust financial governance, ensuring data integrity and compliance with controls, policies, and regulatory standards.
• Coordinate inputs organization-wide to establish a single, consistent data source for planning and reporting.
• Serve as the main liaison with auditors, regulators, and internal governance bodies concerning financial planning and performance.
• Manage the Investment Committee’s agenda preparation, follow-up actions, and presentation submissions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a skilled financial planning and reporting team fostering accountability, insight, and continuous improvement.
• Promote capability enhancement through deploying advanced analytics, automation, and contemporary planning tools.
• Institutionalize best practices in planning and performance management throughout the company.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related domain.
• Professional qualification is mandatory; examples include CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or CFA.
• 12 to 15 years of progressive experience in financial planning, management reporting, or corporate finance within sizable, complex organizations.
• Established record of supporting Executive Committee-level decision-making.
• Proven experience spearheading comprehensive budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning.
• Experience in telecommunications, regulated industries, or capital-intensive sectors is highly advantageous.
• Demonstrated leadership managing and developing mid-level finance professionals.
• Advanced skills in financial modelling, forecasting, and conducting scenario analyses.
• Strong business insight linking financial outcomes with operational factors.
• Exceptional communication abilities and proficiency in executive-level presentations to influence senior stakeholders.
• High competence with financial systems, planning platforms, and performance analytics solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving aptitude with a pragmatic, solution-focused approach.
• Specific expertise with Oracle EPMS tool is required.